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August 2005

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John Clarke

Ray Parkin told stories, real stories, non-fiction, and he didn’t tell them to amuse or to entertain. He told them to record. Ray wanted...

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Sarah Has an Interview

Nicholas Shakespeare

In early July my beautiful 17-year-old niece arrived from Winnipeg, Canada, on her first visit to London. I’d assured Sarah’s parents I...

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ECONOMICS

Waking Up with Mr Jones

Kathy Marks

It is 7.17 a.m. in the Sydney studio of Channel Nine’s Today show, and Tracy Grimshaw and Karl Stefanovic are preparing to quiz a British...

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ENVIRONMENT

Aminata Keeps Running

Carmel Bird

Mount Wellington is a broad smudge of crushed rose silk glittering in the sunrise. The mountain seems close, partly by a trick of the light...

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"No Looking with the Hands"

Tony Wilson

“Job” is a terrific noun and an even better verb: I job, you job. It has its violent side – If you don’t shut your face I’ll job you one –...

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Deserve's Got Nothing to Do With It: Kim Beazley has been charming mall-goers. And getting angry. And developing a knack for snappy one-liners. Is it too late?

John Birmingham

This spin doctor’s exasperation, causing her to abandon the content-free babble of modern political discourse for the more revealing pop-...

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Drought Essay: There's Mud in Manangatang: It's raining at last in the bush, where there is no confidence, only hope.

John Harms

You should start in a place like Deer Park, where I find myself now, in a hire car so mass-produced that 45 minutes ago in the city depot I...

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Drought Essay: Goulburn, NSW

E.M. Holdsworth

Conversation overheard between two men on Auburn Street, Goulburn:“Didya hear? Council’s lifted the water restrictions from Level 5 to...

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Drought Essay: Cambrai, South Australia

Kerryn Goldsworthy

On a Tuesday in June, only a day or two before it finally began to bucket down, an article appeared on page two of the Adelaide Advertiser...

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Drought Essay: Orange, NSW

Celina Riberio

“I’m going to die,” pants Jess Wright. “Good,” says Mrs Jennings. “Do it quietly.”It is a cold Friday night in central-western New South...

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No Flowers: Boys don't cry, nor are they given over to soppy goodbyes

Neil Murray

It had been a gradual decline for my father until he could no longer do the things he loved. No wood to cut. No building to erect. No...

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The True Daughter

Danielle Wood

“Kate,” says Faye, “is a mezzo soprano. For which I am grateful, actually.” There is opera playing and it seems, to Tamsin, to occupy Faye’...

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ECONOMICS

A Dandy Comes a Cropper: It's a very Australian thing to glorfy the rich, famous and dead. And yet Rene Rivkin was never really one of us, was he?

Craig Sherborne

Rivkin Unauthorised? What a redundant title. Rivkin’s dead, and hardly in a position to authorise anything. Andrew Main’s book, one of the...

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One in the Box. Twelve exposed men (and women): 'Secrets of the Jury Room' by Malcolm Knox

Julian Burnside

There is a famous story from the American trial bar concerning juries. The accused was charged with murder. The case was entirely...

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Heat & Fright. A quiet weekend in Adelaide: Sarah Watt's 'Look Both Ways'

Helen Garner

On a scorching summer weekend in Adelaide, while the news is dominated by the fatalities in a train wreck, a bunch of people confront their...

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CULTURE

Red Rage in the Brambles: The strange and the strangely familiar lurk in 'A River Ain't Too Much to Love'

Robert Forster

Smog is Bill Callahan, a man of lyrics and a deep voice, a loner, a drifter, who notices the weather and is wise to past teenage trauma and...

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Whiteboards and Orangemen: Slick meets ick in 'House'

Kerryn Goldsworthy

British actor Hugh Laurie, a gifted amateur athlete whose natural speaking voice recalls his old school Eton, has been nominated in this...

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'Beyond Black' by Hilary Mantel

Inga Clendinnen

Alison is a professional psychic working a cluster of grim towns on the fringe of London. She is a woman of “unfeasible size” but onstage,...

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'The Pearl: Steve Renouf's Story' by John Harms

Adrian McGregor

Standing on a property my daughter bought recently in Samford, half an hour’s drive north-west of Brisbane, I pointed across the valley to...

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The Vanishing. It wasn't the time, but he was the leader Labor had to have: 'Loner: Inside a Labor Tragedy' by Bernard Lagan

Mungo MacCallum

For a movement founded on the principle of democratic socialism, the Australian Labor Party has thrown up a surprising number of leaders...

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